Fabulate vs Tabulate - What's the difference?
fabulate | tabulate |
To tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables.
* 1990 , Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Tractatus Brevus , Kluwer, page 38:
* 1992 , Donald C. Goellnicht, "Tang Ao in America: Male Subject Positions in China Men'', Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Amy Ling (editors), ''Reading the Literatures of Asian America , Temple University Press, ISBN 978-0-87722-936-0,
* 2006 , Jérémie Valentin, “Gille Deleuze’s Political Posture”, chapter 12 of Constantin V. Boundas (editor), Deleuze and Philosophy , Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-2480-5,
A folk story that is not entirely believable.
(specifically) A folk story that is told for entertainment, and not intended to be taken as true.
Arrange in tabular form; arrange into a table.
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As verbs the difference between fabulate and tabulate
is that fabulate is to tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables while tabulate is arrange in tabular form; arrange into a table.As a noun fabulate
is a folk story that is not entirely believable.fabulate
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(fabulat)- Human fears, needs, dreams release the latent propensities of the subliminal soul, and to respond to them the fabulating imagination sets to work.
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- The objects remain those of male fantasies, but from the start Maxine associates the ability to fantasize or fabulate with women and with Cantonese:
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- It is only this posture that permits him to discharge his function as a chief: to fabulate and to summon up the missing people.
Derived terms
* fabulation * fabulatorEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)See also
* memorate ----tabulate
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Verb
(tabulat)- ...and other indices which despair and shame forbid me to tabulate ...